On Monday, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet met with Rosa Sabido, a Cortez resident from Mexico who has been living in sanctuary at the Mancos United Methodist Church since June 2017. “I told him my story,...

A welder cutting chain started a fire that grew to 1 acre before being doused by about 40 firefighters Sunday afternoon on County Road 509, south of Bayfield. Upper Pine River Fire Protection...

FARMINGTON – About 35 detainees from two COVID-19 “pods,” or units, at the San Juan County Detention Center barricaded themselves inside the upper level of the detention center Monday in protest of...

A wildfire reported Sunday northeast of Placerville triggered evacuations, according to the San Miguel Sheriff’s Office. The Green Meadows Fire grew to 62 acres by Monday and was fought by 45...

In the 1890s, cowboy archaeologists dug caves in remote sections of Utah’s Bears Ears. They created Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan artifact collections that have been hidden away for over a...

In 2010, Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton embarked from the small city of Cortez on a five-term mission to pass legislation and inform Washington lawmakers about priorities and values of rural...

Explorer, author and professional climber Mark Synnott is standing in steep, loose rock about to step off the roped route on the top of Mount Everest. He’s about to leave the well-worn path above a...

Durango didn’t quite make it to 100 degrees Saturday or Sunday, with the mercury topping out at 99 degrees on Sunday – and that might mark the peak heat for 2020, with temperatures expected to drop...